Parallel
Web APIs that let AI agents search, extract, monitor and run cited multi-step research tasks across the web
Parallel provides web infrastructure for AI agents. Its APIs search the web, extract page contents, monitor sources for changes and run research tasks that return finished, cited reports, so agents work from current information.
Key features:
- Search API that returns ranked URLs and compressed excerpts for agent tool calls.
- Extract API for full page contents from a URL.
- Task API for deep research and structured enrichment with citations and confidence scores.
- Monitor API for structured alerts when tracked sources change.
- FindAll API for finding every entity that matches given criteria.
- Responses API for fast cited answers inside products.
Parallel offers a CLI, SDKs and an onboarding prompt for coding agents, and serves teams in sales, finance, legal, life sciences and software. Pricing is pay as you go, with up to 5,000 free requests a month and free credits at signup. Search runs from $0.001 to $0.005 per request and Extract at $0.001, while Task runs cost $0.005 to $2.40 depending on depth.